I review "What's In The Bible". Read this post for your chance to win a copy!
Ready to use for your youth group now. (Ball not included)
The most incredible chain reaction video ever!
Ok Go, the makers of the YouTube video with treadmills have just released a new video on YouTube. It’s called “This Too Shall Pass – Rube Goldberg Machine version” and is absolutely incredible! Watch it below.
How awesome is that!!!
I love countdown videos.
3 reasons why countdowns are awsome
And there is a website at which you can download free countdown movies!
freecountdowns.net is an amazing website at which you can download free countdowns. Some are amazing, and some are not so amazing. But the best part about them all is that they’re free!
There are a whole range of countdowns, some in HD, some that are 30 seconds, some that are 3 minutes.
So for your next youth group session or camp, download one of these movies (MPEG-1 or MPEG-4 format) and use it to build suspense for a session.
Here are a few examples of the countdowns.
“What’s In The Bible?” is a new DVD series for kids. It’s from the creator of VeggieTales, Phil Vischer.
VeggieTales had some critics who said that it was just a collection of Old Testament stories and morals, without actually joining any stories together or mentioning salvation through Jesus.
“What’s In The Bible?” aims to equip the next generation with knowledge of the Bible as a whole, not just as a group of stories. It attempts to give kids a full Biblical theology, and not just knowledge of some nice stories.
Here is a trailer for “What’s In The Bible?”
Recently I applied to review this DVD series as part of a Blog Tour with the Tyndale House Publishers, and below are a few of my thoughts after watching the first two DVDs from the 13 part series. Continue reading below for your chance to win a copy of DVD 1 or 2 (“In The Beginning” or “Let My People Go”).
As part of the advertising campaign for the big three (public meetings, small groups, ancon) within the SUEU (Sydney Uni Evangelical Union), the 5SyncBoys performed their smash hit single, “Get Involved” from their album “The EU and U”. Below is a video recording of the performance. The 5SyncBoys were said to be happy with the performace and were quoted on their Facebook Page saying,
“[A shout out] to all our fans, without whom we would just be 5 extremely good-looking, well-dressed guys…”
The 5SyncBoys currently have no shows lined up but may have some exciting projects coming up in the future.
(Yes that is I in the cowboy hat)
I took this photo
It’s been a fun week in the life of my blog, I finally claimed my blog on Technorati and I started getting some traffic from Google.
Look out next week for a review that I have done of “What’s In The Bible?“, an exciting new children’s DVD from Phil Vischer, the creator of VeggieTales. And in this review, for the first time ever on calumhenderson.com, you will be able to enter a competition and win a prize (1 of 2 DVDs)! I’m excited!
Anyway, here are the posts from calumhenderson.com over the past week or so (why not subscribe and get them when they are written?):
And here are some articles/blog posts/websites that I have been reading recently:
Thanks for reading!
Parents are the people that will see the students in your class more than you will, and they will have a much greater influence over you students then you ever will.
Recently in the Public vs Private series, I have done two posts on parents. One on parents who care too much, and one on parents that don’t care enough. This is the final post on parents, and will cover why they matter in deciding where you will be teaching.
As a teacher, you will be interacting directly with your class for up to 4.5 hours a day, or 22.5 hours a week. These interactions will be mostly in the classroom and in a formal setting, and you will be expecting a certain level of interaction from your students. That is that you will be expecting them to show up to class, and to do homework, and to have the materials available for them to do these things.
Parents will be interacting with your students for significantly longer than you will be. If the parents of students don’t care about education, then it is highly likely that the students won’t care about education. And therefore your interactions with your students will be scared by this.
Parents matter in deciding where to teach, before deciding to teach at a school. Try to gauge what the parents will be like, and take this factor into consideration.
Parents will have the greatest influence on your students, so you need to consider them.
Read more posts in this series at Public vs Private | Main Page.
Twitter has a newish feature called lists. Twitter lists are best described as groups of people who are on Twitter.
Through Twitter lists, groups of people can find people together, and their tweets can all be seen on one timeline.
In Twitter you have the option to follow lists, now this doesn’t mean that you will see all of these tweets in your main timeline, but you will be able to see the timeline of the list that you are following easily.
If none of that makes sense, Mashable has a great “how to” about Twitter Lists here.
As a trial of Twitter lists, I have created an SUEU (Sydney Uni Evangelical Union) list. I have added all the people from the SUEU who I know are using Twitter. You can view it (and follow it) here. If you would like to be added to this list, or know somebody who should be added to the list, then please contact me or let me know in the comments.
One of the most common resources that youth groups have are balls, whether it be soccer balls or beach balls or tennis balls or footy balls.
This is the second of my posts about youth group games (first one about games with no resources here), and in this post I will share with you another 9 youth group games, this time, these are all games that can be played with a ball (or two).
Please think through these games before using them with your youth group and consider how the game will look specifically for your youth group. Here is the list of games.
So please continuing reading below for the 2nd post of 9 youth group games to play. Ready for your enjoyment when used in conjunction with a ball (or two).
